black cherry
Americannoun
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a North American cherry, Prunus serotina, having drooping clusters of fragrant white flowers and bearing a black, sour, edible fruit.
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the fruit itself.
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the hard, reddish-brown wood of this tree, used for making furniture.
Etymology
Origin of black cherry
An Americanism dating back to 1720–30
Example Sentences
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Twig's also makes its own-name range of fruit sodas, from root beer to black cherry, and orange to lime.
From BBC ● Feb. 25, 2026
A coffee named Sundays at Toro, grown in Santa Barbara County by Chris and Kristina McCausland, is a Pacas variety with tasting notes of black cherry, passion fruit, cacao and Port wine.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 15, 2024
Owen: Made by winemaker Allison Crowe, this delivers sweet black licorice, black currants and black cherry flavors.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 15, 2022
Savory and lush, with deep flavors of black cherry, plum, smoked meat and wild herbs, this is a classic southern Rhône Valley red wine.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 17, 2021
This was no wilderness, but manicured groves of red-fringed switchgrass, buckthorn, elm, and black cherry, carefully tended to give the illusion of a wild space.
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
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